Patrick Anthony Porteous

1918–2000 (age 82)

Biography

Colonel Patrick Anthony Porteous VC (1 January 1918 – 9 October 2000), who as a Scottish captain in the British commandos, received the Victoria Cross – the British Commonwealth's highest award for valor – for leading a bayonet charge against a German battery in the Dieppe Raid in 1942. He also saw action with the Royal Artillery in France, being evacuated from Dunkirk, and with No. 4 Commando in the D-Day Normandy landings.

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